Nunu & Willump vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,968 Nunu & Willump vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Pantheon
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Advice to Win Against Pantheon
Pantheon's Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable from the front. Get behind him or wait it out.
Grand Starfall gives several seconds of warning before Pantheon arrives. Use this time to get out of the way or to form a plan to deal with him.
Be careful near Pantheon if your health is low - a thrown Comet Spear executes low health enemies.
Nunu & Willump vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several strategic Nunu & Willump versus Pantheon counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Pantheon. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Pantheon. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Pantheon?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually fairs equally well when taking on Pantheon, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Nunu & Willump makes an ok counter for Pantheon.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nunu & Willump into Pantheon.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter to Pantheon. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nunu & Willump against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Pantheon. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Pantheon build consist of Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Pantheon than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 49.1% battling Pantheon with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Pantheon as Nunu & Willump, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nunu & Willump vs Pantheon clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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